SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is seeking to gauge public and industry opinion regarding ‘fit and proper’ prudential standards for life insurance e...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a third former AM Corporation director in light of its investigation in...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has taken action against a director of a super fund and a promoter of a superannuation rollover scheme after a...

Financial planning

Industry superannuation funds led the broader bounce back in superannuation assets under management for the June 2003 quarter, after posting an 8.5 per cent rise or $4.4 ...

Financial planning

Australian boutique investment bank Mariner Corporate Finance - a joint venture between Bill Ireland’s Mariner Financial firm and Melbourne-based corporate adviser David ...

Superannuation

Financial advisers do not need to gain extra qualifications to advise on self-managed super funds (SMSFs), apart from the requirements of the Financial Services Reform Ac...

Financial planning

The Federal Government’s newly-gazetted regulations on superannuation portability are now likely to be disallowed in the Senate, with the Australian Labor Party, the Aust...

Funds management

Superannuation fund members have been warned against engaging the services of individuals or companies promoting early access to retirement benefits and threatened with s...

Funds management

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have launched a new online registration system to streamline the starting up of ...

Financial planning

Two executives of a firm that allows superannuation fund members to redeem their super today appeared in the Gold Coast Magistrates Court charged with making false or mis...

Financial planning

Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan has signalled the Government will not be departing from its approach to superannuation portability despite its portability regula...

Financial planning

Former Tasmanian financial adviser Mervyn William Mitchell appeared in Hobart Magistrates Court today on 110 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have accepted enforceable undertakings from AM Corpo...

Editorial

Despite headlines to the contrary, not everyone in funds management is raking in the big dollars with senior executives finding the drop in the market and the consolidati...

Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is threatening legal action against self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) which fail to comply....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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